Amelanchier
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Not just you sir. I thought it might be my poor feathering of my leery uncontrolled descents. Doh.
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I agree Tim, I have a rigging paw on the bridge of my cheap and cheerful sequioa and that allows for more options than needed. One main anchor and two choked lanyards from one point or two top anchors and a single lanyard More typically I would have one main anchor, one choked lanyard and the chainsaw all from the same point. Comfy. Add a hitchclimber into the mix on the main line/s the options just become ridiculous.
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Just thought I might give this link found on Nods Blog (http://treeworker.blogspot.com/) a little more exposure. http://www.climb-art.com/english/download/pos_rg_repair_set_eng.pdf I'd be interested to see if there is actually anyone with this problem...
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Foundation degree course in Arb
Amelanchier replied to Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.'s topic in Training & education
I've completed the Myerscough Online Foundation Degree. Very flexible course, although be prepared to dedicate the best part of three years to it. -
Good idea but I have to say, good luck sterilising a chainsaw.
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I wouldn't describe installing three systems in a tree (srt access / srt or drt rescue / Ddrt work positioning) as simple... I think the point was to ask if people who used SRT had considered the rescue angle??
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Just as long as you don't work from it - a lanyard will seriously hinder the lowering!!!
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Well, SRT is one of those things I'd always intended to do, (I even bought all the gear), but never got round to. So I'd never really thought it all through from start to finish. Essentially, watching pros who do use SRT often undertake what looked like an extremely difficult and technical rescue sure makes one think! It also looked gear intensive. Numerous prussic anchors to pick the casualty off their ascenders. Rescuer ascends under casualty on same line, and has to get above before anchoring into the line to descend. The point the guys were making was how difficult it was and that even if you were capable, would your rescuer be???
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There was an very revealing srt rescue performed by mr cowell and treevolution. I hadn't considered the complexity of the stages...
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I always wanted one of these... http://www.amo-zil.ru/zil_eng/8.html Sorry for the slight derail!!
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Chris I posted it 2 days ago... Its on the bottom of the ocean now... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2377
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blub blub watch it sink...
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I drilled a hole through mine to cram a 'R' clip behind the cams. For me it was a trade off between safe use and structural integrity. They sit at the bottom of the bag these days anyway... Not that I'm recommending people drill holes in their gear
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Now that's innovative!!! I like it!!! I guess you'd have to bind it together
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Here is the draft edition of the new BS8516 (which I've shamelessly lifted from http://www.qtra.co.uk/cms/index.php?section=39) Its a draft, open for consultation so comments please. Keep them on topic or they'll be deleted. I'd like to put together a reponse from arbtalk members if the content warrants it. BS_8516_2008 Recommedations for tree safety inspection.pdf
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Some murmers about BS 8516: 2008 which I'll post in a separate thread... (to sink beneath the waves without a sound...)
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Thats more like it So you wouldn't advocate some faffing with a silky then... I was trying to avoid the easy "eco" option (sorry guys ) in favour of a individual spec to drag out the last miserable days of the tree a bit longer
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We could hang her in a gibbet from the dead stem as a warning to all tree owners to not let their specimen trees get in such a state... Or cremate her and terravent her ashes into the root zone...
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Top stuff mate.
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Its great isn't it? Totally Fubar! What about the dead stem? Knock some height out of it? Take it all the way off? What's the greatest benefit to the tree, sod the ecosystem... Nice big mulch layer anyone? (and lets pretend the bottom of the stem isn't teeming with kretschmaria... )
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Lets keep the suggestions angled towards tree health? If Mrs Miggins got your round to save her favourite Beech tree, what would you recommend. Answers on a postcard to ....
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Cool huh? Agrobacterium tumefaciens???? Your guess is as good as mine...
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Creative management solutions guys and gals??? Situation is the garden of a Georgian property that was the subject of an informal planning app to subdivide the garden so I assume they were planning to keep it???
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I've seen our mistletoe (Viscum album?) on Malus, Populus, Salix, Alnus and Tilia but d'you know what? Now I come to think of it, I've never seen it on Oak!!!
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Even better Peter, get yourself cs31 and the relevant IPAF ticket and you're qualified to hack stuff from a 26m platform!!!
